Being a member in the sPlot Consortium comes with many benefits, most importantly the access to a globally unique dataset, and the possibilities to participate in international research projects and publications using the sPlot database. According to the sPlot Rules, one can become a member of the sPlot Consortium by contributing data to the database or upon invitation from the sPlot Steering Committee.
If you feel that you could contribute a significant amount of vegetation-plot data from a region that is underrepresented in sPlot (see sPlot releases and its members), you are welcome to fill in this template and contact the sPlot Coordinator Gabriella Damasceno. We particularly seek data from Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Oceania and Latin America as well as from tropical, subtropical and boreal biomes. All contributing databases should be registered in the meta-database Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD).
Note that data from Europe cannot directly contributed to sPlot but only via our partner, the European Vegetation Archive (EVA) (contact: Milan Chytrý).
In exceptional cases, also additional researchers without own data might be invited to join if they offer outstanding analytical expertise that is relevant to fulfil the sPlot aims. If you consider yourself belonging to this group, you can contact the Chair of the sPlot Steering Committee Helge Bruelheide.